[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] northward side of a cove of meadow"--means "A cove." It is an equivalent of _Aucûp_ (Williams), "A little cove or creek." "_Aspatuck_ river" is also of record here, and probably takes that name from a hill or height in proximity. "Aspatuck hill," New Millford, Conn. Shinnecock, now preserved as the name of an Indian village in the town of Southampton, on the east side of Shinnec'ock Bay, for many years in occupation by a remnant of the so called Shinnec'ock Indians who had taken on the habits and customs of European life, appears in its present form in Plymouth Records in 1637, in treaty association with the Massachusetts government. They claimed to be the "true owners of the eastern end of Long Island," but acknowledged the primacy of Wyandanch, sachem of the Montauks, who had been elected by other sachems as chief sachem or the "sachem of sachem" of the many clans. The name is probably from the root _Shin,_ or _Schind,_ "Spruce-pine" (Zeisb.); _Schindikeu,_ "Spruce-pine forest"; _Shinak-ing,_ "At the land of spruce-pines." (Brinton); _Schindak-ock,_ "Land or place of spruce-pines." There was an extended spruce-pine forest on that part of the island, a considerable portion of which remains in the district south of Peconic River in the town of Southampton. The present form of the name is pronounced Shinnec'ock. Mochgonnekonck is written, in 1643, as the name of a place unlocated except in a general way.